Whereas Apple uses a Fall to announce new iPhones, Samsung prefers to recover new Galaxies in a Spring. And with a press event scheduled during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Feb. 25, it looks like 2018 will be no different.

Here’s what we pattern to see in a Galaxy S9.

Design

The pattern of a Galaxy S9 is approaching to demeanour a lot like a Galaxy S8. (Photo: Samsung)

Last year’s Galaxy S8 featured one of Samsung’s many radical redesigns, with a wiring hulk apropos one of a initial vital manufacturers to recover a phone that lonesome scarcely a entirety of a front with a shade (what Samsung calls a “infinity display”).

Like a Galaxy S7 to a S6 in 2016, rumors prove to this year’s pattern looking a lot like final year’s.

VentureBeat’s Evan Blass reports that Samsung will once again launch dual flagship Galaxies, a Galaxy S9 and S9+. The S9 will underline a 5.8-inch arrangement while a S9+ will keep a 6.2-inch screen, both a same sizes as a S8 and S8+.

Both phones will be a initial to implement Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 845 processors, that guarantee zippier energy and longer battery life. The new chip should also move improvements to a camera.

Other important S8 facilities that are approaching to sojourn in a S9 line includes a fingerprint sensor (now changed to subsequent a camera lens on a behind of a phone as against to being right subsequent to it) and a symbol on a side for summoning Samsung’s Bixby practical assistant.

More: Samsung’s Bixby, a Siri rival, stammers during a start

It stays to be seen if a Bixby symbol will be means to be customized to open an app or call adult a some-more useful Google Assistant. Thankfully, a unchanging 3.5mm headphone jack that Apple and others have thrown divided will remain, according to leaked images of a bottom of a phone posted by Blass on Twitter.

On a subject of sound, churned reports prove that the phones will have stereo speakers, a acquire further that was prolonged overdue.

Cameras

In a invitation for a arriving S9 launch, Samsung creates it flattering transparent a new phones will be boosting softened optics. And according to new teasers and reports, this is indeed going to be a biggest differentiator from final year’s phones.

Both a S9 and S9+ will competition back 12-megapixel cameras, a ability to constraint videos in super delayed suit as good as a non-static orifice that will presumably offer severely softened low-light performance.

According to VentureBeat a S9+ will also underline a second 12-megapixel lens that should concede for a “portrait mode” identical to final year’s dual-rear camera Galaxy Note 8.

A mural mode would also concede a S9+ to improved contest with Apple’s iPhone 8 Plus and X, both of that already offer a feature.

On a program side, Korean websiteET News reported final week that Samsung will take a page out of Apple’s playbook and deliver a possess chronicle of “Animoji” (or charcterised emoji) that use a phone’s front camera and sensor to digitally spur a emoji formed on your facial reactions.

Samsung has posted churned teasers on some of its YouTube pages that seem to all though endorse these reports.

Pricing and recover date

When it comes to a Galaxy S9′s pricing and release, well, things are looking like a bit of a churned bag.

The good news: Blass reports that a phone will be accessible for pre-orders on Mar 1, with a recover roughly dual weeks after on Mar 16.

A new news on Monday from German website Winfuture.de has Samsung relocating even faster, with pre-orders starting on Sunday and a phones being expelled on Mar 8.

Now a bad news.

Similar to a iPhone X and Galaxy Note 8 all a record in a Galaxy S9 won’t be cheap. ET News has a phone entrance in during some-more costly than a Galaxy S8 and S8+, that cost roughly $720 and $840, respectively, during launch final year.

The news speculates that S9 will be cheaper than a starting cost of final year’s Galaxy Note 8, that was roughly $930, though that it is probable for a S9+ will be some-more costly than a Note, presumably encroaching on a iPhone X’s $1,000 starting price.

Similar to a launches of the S8 and Note 8 final year, we wouldn’t be astounded to see a vital U.S. carriers offer trade-in deals to captivate people to squeeze a phones on their network’s installment plans.

That will no doubt palliate a cost, though if we are formulation to get a Galaxy S9 we might wish to start saving now.